We had heaps of trouble with our Brother MFC-465CN, now don't start with the 'what do you expect, you bought a brother'. Thats not the issue here. The issue is that after upgrading to Snow Leopard our network printer wasn't working on the network. We got this really weird error message in the print cue about an invalid nickname. So I spent some time this morning chatting with a snow leopard specialist and its all fixed! We had to use the original version driver off the Brother install disc (version 1.0). It works again now! The wife is happy, so i am very very happy!

We had heaps of trouble with our Brother MFC-465CN, now don't start with the 'what do you expect, you bought a brother'. Thats not the issue here. The issue is that after upgrading to Snow Leopard our network printer wasn't working on the network. We got this really weird error message in the print cue about an invalid nickname. So I spent some time this morning chatting with a snow leopard specialist and its all fixed! We had to use the original version driver off the Brother install disc (version 1.0). It works again now! The wife is happy, so i am very very happy!

I have a trouble with my BROTHER 465CN, after upgrading to snow leopard is very slow. any help is appreciated. thanks

Hi,

This is basically the procedure the snow leopard specialist did to help me:

You need to power down the printer, unplug your printer from your mac or disconnect from network.

''Now, important step - do you still have your original driver disc that came with the printer, cause if this doesn't work, as it didn't for me you'll have to reinstall the original driver and then it works (Version 1.0).

You need to drag your printers folder to the desktop 'yourHD/Library/Printers'

Power down mac

Reconnect printer to mac/network

Turn on printer

Restart Mac

Go to system preferences/Print & Fax, and select printer - make default, go into Options/Driver and try to select MFC 465-CN CUPS as driver, as its not available it should connect to the web to get the driver from Apple. And then select CUPS driver, etc - I'm a little hazy on this as it all happened so quickly over the phone.

If the Mac won't connect to software update either by itself or when you ask it to from the apple menu, or in my case, it connected but said the software was up to date, then you'll need the original driver disc from Brother to reinstall the printer.

Once you do a test print of anything and is working fine - move Printers folder on desktop to trash.

For those of us that are having trouble with Hewlett-Packard devices; here is the work around that I ended up using to get my Deskjet F4180 to work.

⓵ Delete the HP folder from Macintosh HD:Library:Printers

⓶ Empty the trash.

⓷ Delete your printer from the System Preferences.

⓸ Install the 10.5 Leopard software but; Do Not Start Any of the Applications, yet.

⓹ Go to the Hewlett-Packard folder in Macintosh HD:Applications

⓺ Select all of the applications that you intend to use. Get Info (Command-I) on all. Check the Open with Rosetta box. Close all of the Info windows.

⓻ All of HP's software should now work, albeit a little more slowly since it is opening with Rosetta.

The printer should now work. It seems normal in Pages, Preview, Numbers, etc. However, it does not seem to like TextEdit documents. Also, it will not scan with Preview or Image Capture. It will scan using the HP Scan Pro application.

I realize that this is not the best of circumstances; but, I can say it worked for me. I kept a clone of 10.5.8 so, I was not completely out in the woods but; I was interested to see if I could get functionality. Hopefully, this will hold those who are more printer dependent than others._________________Mac Book 2.1 Ghz (Penryn) 10.7.5 4Gb DDR2
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